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Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.
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Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty servants, and how his peasants lived, with meat once a year, a new suit of clothes once every ten years, little medicine and less education.
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Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?
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a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies
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The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.
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Ibo, kogda u liudei gorit v serdtsakh religioznaia iarost', na glaza ikh v to zhe vremia spuskaetsia zavesa slepoty.
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It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
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south-pacific
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The movement of animals across the bridge was by no means always in one direction, for although it is true that the more spectacular beasts--mastodon, saber-tooth, rhinoceros--came out of Asia to enrich the new world, other animals like the camel originated in America and carried their wonderful capacities into Asia.
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Of all the men who were photographed that day, the chief's life had come closest to the American ideal, closest in observing the principles on which this nation had been founded. He was immeasurably greater than Chester Arthur, the hack politician from New York, incomparably finer than Robert Lincoln, a niggardly man of no stature who inherited from his father only his name, and a better warrior, considering his troops and ordnance, than Ph..
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wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
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There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that highway.
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On samostoiatel'no doshel do ponimaniia, chto instinktivnaia nenavist' k evreiam sovershenno bessmyslenna, a v podderzhku ratsional'noi nepriiazni nel'zia privesti nikakikh dokazatel'stv.>>
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CATHOLIC: Let me understand what you're saying, Mrs. Paxmore. You believe that on some day to come, the religious leaders of this world are going to convene and state that what the Bible has condoned since the days of Abraham, that what Jesus Himself approved of and against which He never spoke ... You believe that our leaders are going to tell the world, "It is all wrong"? QUAKER: I expect to spend my life, Neighbor Steed, trying to convin..
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Toi khong yeu chien tranh, nhung toi yeu long can dam ma nguoi binh thuong dung de doi mat voi chien tranh.
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chiến-tranh
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Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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James A. Michener |
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From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.
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James A. Michener |
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I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
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James A. Michener |
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how small he was and how wormy in manner,
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James A. Michener |
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Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.
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